By Linda GreenUnited Methodist News ServiceFifty years ago, Methodist clergy were in the top five healthiest professions in America, and now they are in the bottom five least healthy. 'We cannot have a healthy church if we don't have healthy leadership,' said a United Methodist physician...
Beverly Schol and Bishop John R. Schol greet Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton, right, at a Congressional reception at the United Methodist Building Jan. 19. Sixty-two United Methodists serve in the 110th Congress, 49 representatives and 13 senators. The reception featured information on Nothing But...
November 3, 2004 On-lineVOL. 15, NO. 20 FROM THE EDITOR We want to hear from you By Erik Alsgaard UMCONNECTION STAFF The UMConnection, the newspaper of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, would like to hear from you. Letters to the editor are always welcome. We provide a space in our newspaper...
article reprinted from the UMConnection: Commentary SEPT 6, 2003 On-line VOL. 14, NO. 16 NEWS Deaf camp worker offers lesson with a smile BY MELISSA LAUBERUMConnection StaffDavid Broggin is a smile. He is also a living testament to the churchs willingness to...
article reprinted from the United Methodist Connection AUGUST 7, 2002 On-line VOL. 13, NO. 15 Steen: Continue...to do the will of the Lord By Joretta Purdue United Methodist News Service On June 28, the Rev. Rebecca A. Steen surrendered her clergy...
EDWIN SCHELLBy Edwin Schell As the Baltimore-Washington Conference prepares to meet next month in Baltimore, this column will include highlights of Methodism since it began in this historic area.1854New burial sites of Bishops Asbury, George and Emory were marked in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery...
BY DOROTHY PRESBERRYSpecial to UMConnectionThe Baltimore-Washington Conference Subcommittee on Ministry Mental Health encourages churches to observe Mental Health Awareness Week during October or May. Resources to assist in observing this occasion can be found on the conference?s Web site...
By Melissa LauberUMConnection StaffRabbi Joshua Martin Siegel refuses to settle for the acceptable, the easy or the expected. He is hoping the same can be said of The United Methodist Church.At the May session of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, Siegel was introduced by Bishop John R. Schol...
COLUMBIA - The Rev. Jean Marsh, pastor of Chesaco UMC, is also a fabric artist. She is one of several artists, all members of Fiber Artists of Baltimore, showing their work at the Slayton House Gallery on the Wilde Lake Village Green in an exhibition called FABrications, Jan. 14-Feb.10. 'Using...
November 3, 2004On-lineVOL. 15, NO. 20 FROM THE EDITOR The way of all FleschBy Erik Alsgaard Erik Alsgaard Thirty-eight percent of the people in Baltimore read at or below the fifth-grade level. A third of the city didn't graduate from high school. This, according to a recent Baltimore Sun news...
